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Author / Creator:Cantor, Charles R., 1942-
Imprint:San Francisco : W. H. Freeman, c1980.
Description:3 v. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
Local Note:pt. 1. The conformation of biological macromolecules.--pt. 2. Techniques for the study of biological structure and function.--pt. 3. The behavior of biological macromolecules.
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/524308
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Other authors / contributors:Schimmel, Paul R. (Paul Reinhard), 1940- joint author.
ISBN:0716711885 (pbk. : pt. 1)
0716710420 (hard. : pt. 1)
Notes:Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The Conformation of Biological Macromolecules
  • 1. An Introduction to the Strategy and Tactics of Biophysical Chemistry
  • 2. Structure of Proteins
  • 3. Structure of Nucleic Acids
  • 4. Other Biological Polymers
  • 5. Conformational Analysis and Forces That Determine Protein Structure
  • 6. Conformational Analysis and Forces That Determine Nucleic Acid Structure
  • Part II. Techniques for the Study of Biological Structure and Function
  • 7. Absorption Spectroscopy
  • 8. Other Optical Techniques
  • 9. Introduction to Magnetic Resonance
  • 10. Size and Shape of Macromolecules
  • 11. Ultracentrifugation
  • 12. Other Hydrodynamic Techniques
  • 13. X-Ray Crystallography
  • 14. Other Scattering and Diffraction Techniques
  • Part III. The Behavior of Biological Macromolecules
  • 15. Ligand Interactions at Equilibrium
  • 16. Kinetics of Ligand Interactions
  • 17. Regulation of Biological Activity
  • 18. Configurational Statistics of Polymer Chains
  • 19. Elementary Polymer-Chain Hydrodynamics and Chain Dimensions
  • 20. Conformational Equilibria of Polypeptides and Proteins: The Helix-Coil Transition
  • 21. Conformational Equilibria of Polypeptides and Proteins: Reversible Folding of Proteins
  • 22. Nucleic Acid Structural Transitions
  • 23. Statistical Mechanics and Kinetics of Nucleic Acid Interactions
  • 24. Tertiary Structure of Nucleic Acids
  • 25. Introduction to Membrane Equilibria and to Bilayers